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Workers sort fresh avocado fr export at Souk Farm. The firm grows avocados and process them into oil. Courtesy
Economy

20 green companies seek Rwf5bn to boost circular food economy

Monday, October 06, 2025
Farmers spraying pesticides in a maize plantation in Burera District. Irish potato and maize farmers have warned of a likely decline in production as the prices of pesticides and fungicides continue to rise.
Agriculture

New biotech maize trials offer hope against fall armyworm devastation

Monday, August 11, 2025
Biotech cassava is being tested in Huye District to fight a disease that once caused a major drop in production
Agriculture

How three biotech crops could help Rwandan farmers curb losses

Tuesday, July 22, 2025
An agric expert woorks at an irish potato seed multiplication centre in Kinigi in Musanze District.. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Govt to pilot three biotech crops

Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Doreen Karehe sorts her strawberry plants in one of the greenhouses in which she does juicy strawberries farming in hydroponics in Mayange Sector, Bugesera district. Photos by Olivier Mugwiza
Agriculture

A look back at Rwanda’s agri-biotech uptake, drought and rice turmoil

Wednesday, January 01, 2025
A man holds a harvested GM cassava plant at a confined field trial site in Rubona, Huye District, in November 2023 (courtesy photo).
Agriculture

Genetically modified cassava farming in Rwanda awaits relevant regulations

Saturday, October 26, 2024
Agric experts work in a farm of new variety of potatoes that are grown in a green house in Musanze District. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

What $10m agri-biotech programme means for Rwanda

Thursday, October 17, 2024
Agric specialists during a seeds multiplication exercise in a greenhouse in Musanze District. Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Inside Rwanda’s new Rwf13bn agri-biotech programme

Monday, October 14, 2024
Panelists at the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali on Monday, September 2. Courtesy
Agriculture

AFS Forum: Farmers, experts make case for increased soil testing technology

Monday, September 02, 2024
Agronomists work in a potato seed multiplication centre in Musanze District. Rwanda is getting ready to test genetically modified potato varieties resistant to late blight. Sam Ngendahimana..
Agriculture

Researchers root for agricultural biotech to tackle food insecurity in Africa

Sunday, September 01, 2024
Paddy rice production in 2023 amounted to 133,628 tonnes, 1,446 tonnes less than the 135,074 tonnes recorded in the previous year, in Rwanda. On February 21, 2024, the country enacted legislation governing biosafety, aimed at ensuring the safe handling, transfer, and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) food in the country.
Agriculture

Six things to know as Rwanda promulgates GMO law

Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Workers sort new cassava varieties at a RAB station in Huye District. Rwanda, on February 21, published in its Official Gazette a law governing biosafety for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to ensure they are handled, transferred, and used safely. Photo Courtesy
Law

Rwanda finally passes law on GMOs: What next?

Tuesday, February 27, 2024